Revive
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to flourish anew" (ana, "again, anew," thallo, "to flourish or blossom"), hence, "to revive," is used metaphorically in Philippians 4:10 , RV, "ye have revived (your thought for me)," AV, "(your care of me) hath flourished again." In the Sept., Psalm 28:7; Ezekiel 17:24; Hosea 8:9 .
"to live again" (ana, "and" zao, "to live"), "to regain life," is used of moral "revival," Luke 15:24 , "is alive again;" (b) of sin, Romans 7:9 , "revived," lit., "lived again" i.e., it sprang into activity, manifesting the evil inherent in it; here sin is personified, by way of contrast to the man himself. Some mss. have it in Romans 14:9 , for zao, as in the RV, which italicizes "again."
King James Dictionary [2]
Revi'Ve, L revivisco re and vivo, to live.
1. To return to life to recover life.
The soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 1 Kings 17 . Romans 14 .
2. To recover new life or vigor to be reanimated after depression.
When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Genesis 45 .
3. To recover from a state of neglect, oblivion, obscurity or depression. Learning revived in Europe after the middle ages. 4. In chimistry, to recover its natural state, as a metal.
Sin revives, when the conscience is awakened by a conviction of guilt. Romans 7 .
REVI'VE,
1. To bring again to life to reanimate. 2. To raise from languor, depression or discouragement to rouse as, to revive the spirits or courage. 3. To renew to bring into action after a suspension as, to revive a project or scheme that had been laid aside. 4. To renew in the mind or memory to recall.
The mind has the power in many cases to revive ideas or perceptions, which it has once had.
5. To recover from a state of neglect or depression as, to revive letters or learning. 6. To recomfort to quicken to refresh with joy or hope.
Wilt thou not revive us again? Psalms 85 .
7. To bring again into notice.
Revive the libels born to die.
8. In chimistry, to restore or reduce to its natural state or to its metallic state as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
(2): ( v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
(3): ( v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
(4): ( v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
(5): ( v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
(6): ( v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
(7): ( v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
(8): ( v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
REVIVE . In 1 Kings 17:22 , 2 Kings 13:21 , Nehemiah 4:2 , Romans 14:9 , ‘to revive’ is literally ‘to come to life again,’ as in Shaks. 1 Henry VI. i. i. 18 ‘Henry is dead, and never shall revive.’ We thus see the force of Romans 7:9 ‘When the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.’
